Andrea Ehrig-Mitscherlich

Andrea Ehrig-Mitscherlich
nation	German Democratic Republic
birthday	December 1, 1960
place of birth	Dresden, GDR
Career
society	SC unit Dresden
Trainer	Rainer mouth
status	resigned
End of career	November 26, 1988
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 5 × 1 × World Cup medals 2 × 4 × 0 × EM medals 5 × 0 × 0 ×
winter Olympics silver 1976 Innsbruck 3000 m gold 1984 Sarajevo 3000 m silver 1984 Sarajevo 1500 m silver 1984 Sarajevo 1000 m silver 1988 Calgary 5000 m silver 1988 Calgary 3000 m bronze 1988 Calgary 1500 m  All around world championships silver 1982 Inzell All-around gold 1983 Karl-Marx-Stadt All-around silver 1984 Deventer All-around gold 1985 Sarajevo All-around silver 1986 The Hague All-around silver 1987 West Allis All-around  All-around European Championships gold 1983 Heerenveen All-around gold 1985 Groningen All-around gold 1986 Geithus All-around gold 1987 Groningen All-around gold 1988 Kongsberg All-around
Placements in the speed skating world cup
Debut in the World Cup January 25, 1986  World Cup victories 6th  Total toilet 500 9. (1987/88)  Total toilet 1000 4th (1987/88) 8th (1985/86)  Total toilet 1500 5th (1987/88) 8th (1986/87)  Total toilet 3000/5000 1. (1985/86) 4. (1987/88)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  500 meters 0 0 1  1000 meters 0 1 1  1500 meters 1 4th 1  3000 meters 4th 1 2  5000 meters 1 0 0
last change: March 10, 2010

Andrea Ehrig-Mitscherlich , b. Mitscherlich, mated. Schöne, Ehrig (born December 1, 1960 in Dresden ) is a former German speed skater who, starting in the GDR in the 1980s , helped shape the world's top long-distance races. Already in 1976 at the age of 15 she won Olympic silver over 3000 meters, eight years later also over 1000 and 1500 meters and in 1984 she became Olympic champion over 3000 meters. In 1980 she was fourth over 3000 meters. At her fourth Olympic Games in 1988 , she won two silver medals in the long distance and bronze over 1500 meters.

Her international career began at a young age following her first successful participation in the Olympics in 1976. Since then she has played a decisive role in determining what happens on the medium and long haul routes. From 1983 to 1988 she was consecutively European champion in the all-around competition - with the exception of 1984, when she decided not to participate because of the Olympic preparation. In 1983 and 1985 she became world champion and between 1982 and 1987 she won four World Championship silver. She won 6 World Cup races and came second and five times third. In total, she set 9 world records in medium and long distances as well as in all-around competitions. This puts her in third place in the German record, behind Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann (19) and Karin Enke (10).

Andrea Ehrig (left), Gabi Zange , Karin Enke and Sabine Brehm at the Speed ​​Skating World Cup in Berlin on November 26, 1988

Although she specialized in long distance races, she also took part in sprint races on a regular basis and took top places there. At the World Championships in the sprint four-way battle she was three times 4th and twice sixth. At the World Championships in 1985 and the European Championships in 1987 and 1988, she won the titles with victories over all four individual distances - a feat that only Gunda Niemann could repeat later. Together with Karin Enke , Christa Rothenburger and Gabi Zange , she secured the dominance of East German runners on all routes in the 1980s. After winning the European Championship and the Olympic silver medal over 5000 meters, she and her colleagues Karin Enke and Gabi Zange declared the official resignation of the "big three" in 1988.

Andrea Ehrig-Mitscherlich started for the former SC unit Dresden (successor: ESC Dresden , since 2001 ice skating club Dresden ) and was looked after by successful trainer Rainer Mund .

Awards

In 1984 Ehrig-Mitscherlich received the Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold. In 1988, at the end of her sports career, she was honored with the Star of Friendship of Nations in gold.

literature

• Klaus Gallinat, Olaf W. Reimann:  Schöne-Ehrig, Andrea . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Web links

Commons : Andrea Ehrig-Mitscherlich  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Statistics on the speed skating news page
• Andrea Ehrig-Mitscherlich in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )